Thursday, June 07, 2007

in 1891, 'Sockless' Jerry Simpson sends back General Theodore Monteith's truce messenger with a one-word message: “Nuts.” Monteith prepares for a retreat out of Topeka, telling his men, “We'll be back. Have no doubt in your mind about that; we'll be back, and this will soon be over.” He manages to leave Kansas' capitol with surprisingly few casualties; most historians of the era feel that Simpson let Monteith leave without undue resistance because he wanted to preserve his own forces against any coming Union onslaught. Allowing Monteith to retreat unmolested proved a disaster for his comrades in Kansas City, where the general headed to relieve his chief aide, Lt. Colonel Mark Wainwright, who was in a hard fight in the border town.

in 1999, Leopold Turkavian, a former soldier of the Central European Empire and current assassin for the Illuminati, breaks into Queen Gwen's bedchambers in her Welsh retreat and attempts to kill her. The queen has other ideas, and fights Turkavian off long enough for her security detail to burst in and finish the man off. She tells them to be ready for more; “As the last of the Empire falls to us, their agents will grow more desperate. Take care that the king's guard watches him, as well.”

In 2003, in the West the Corporation's Source Project reached make-or-break point. Software developers built a game-world of nightmare and wonder. Evil called to evil. Windows were about to open into the world, and the Power shift dimensions. Perhaps unwittingly the Corporation would usher in the Magic Time.

~ variant from Steve Payne: extensive use of original content has been made to celebrate the author's genius.

In 10,195, AG Paul Atreides led a Fremen insurgency on Dune, terminating the supply of the Universe's most valuable commodity, the spice known as melange. The troops of Padishah Emperor Shaddam Corrino IV and Baron Vladimir Harkonnen arrived on the planet Dune for a showdown. They were supported by a coalition of the willing from the noble houses of the Landsraad; together, they must resume the supply of melange.

~ variant from Steve Payne: extensive use of original content has been made to celebrate the author's genius.

Plague spreads ..

In 1760,Yersinia pestis held court in the great continent of Europe and his mastery was absolute. His warriors Nosopsyllus fasciatus and rattus rattus had defeated the Royal families of Hapsburg, Romanov, Stuart, Hohenzollern inter alia and they ran riot in this fallen house. The great cities ..

.. of Rome, Paris and London were playgrounds for the flea and the rat and they ruled with impunity. Mighty was their demesne and silent also.

In 2012, Mrs George Walker Bush sensed time was on her side. W needed time to make a big U turn, he was a stubborn character who demanded a complete rethink. She was confident he would come around to the idea of passing the baton to her. Making Condi the first African American President of the United States would play well ..

Condoleeza Rice

.. with the electorate. She had checked with all 17 of them at Camp David. They were the sole American survivors of the nuclear exchange with the Axis of Evil countries that had extirpated life above ground.

In 1976, on this day the author Frederick Forsyth published the semi-fictional account “The Day of the Jackal”. The book depicted the events of 1974 when the Emperor Napoleon V Airport was belatedly opened by the Mayor of Paris, André Joseph Marie de Gaulle. The event was almost marred by an assassination attempt on ..

.. the Major. The assassin known as the Jackal, disguised as a war veteran, made his way to a building which faced the runway where de Gaulle presented veterans with medals. However, the Jackal failed to take into account the Gallic custom of kissing on both cheeks, expecting instead that de Gaulle would shake hands with the medal recipient. As the Jackal fired, de Gaulle simultaneously moved forward to kiss the recipient on the cheeks, causing the bullet to miss.

In 1994, London Underground train number AEJX57B pulled smoothly into Liverpool Street Station at rush hour. The platform could not be more crowded with humanity. And of course the train is packed like a sardine tin already. Frustrating to get squeezed and shuffled and sweat out your expensive business clothes and ..

Carriage 16A

.. still not get a seat home with your expensive season ticket. But what's this, Carriage 16A is completely empty?

in 1891, Lt. Colonel Mark Wainwright's forces in Kansas City receive good and bad news – the bad news is that General Monteith was forces to abandon Topeka, Kansas to the rebels. The good news is that Monteith is on his way to Kansas City. This news quickly spreads through the streets in the border town, and rebels begin abandoning the town in droves. Wainwright almost has the town under control by the time that Monteith arrives to mop up. The general arrives very determined to return to Kansas' capitol, and wants Wainwright to spend his every waking moment in planning to make it happen. “That city will be mine, Mr. Wainwright.” The colonel vows, “I shall expend all my resources to make it so, general.”

in 1999, an assassin attacks King Arthur II of Great Britain as he rests in his Welsh retreat with Queen Gwen. His Majesty is stabbed several times by the man that everyone assumes is sent by the Central European Empire's vestiges, and is flown to London just before lapsing into a coma. Queen Gwen goes on television to announce to the nation, in a tear-filled voice, that “no matter what these villains may do, no matter the atrocity that they perpetrate on those we love, we shall never rest, we shall never relent in our holy task to bring them to justice, and to cast them down from the command of nations.” Her stirring words rally the nation and send her personal popularity soaring. She is now in effective command of the country, and she pursues the war against her old masters ruthlessly, scouring them from the face of Europe wherever they are found.

In 2003, planes fell out of the sky, metal wings were replaced by leather and the lights went out for good. The Source Project had invited something catastrophic into the World. The Magic Time had begun.

~ variant from Steve Payne: extensive use of original content has been made to celebrate the author's genius.

In 10,195, AG on the Planet Dune, Paul Atreides led an assault by Fremen mounted on giant sand-worms. House atomics were detonated to blast through the sand-wall and enter the desert capital, Arrakeen in a surprise attack on the House of Shaddam Corrino IV. Surging into the city to defeat the coalition of the willing, the Messiah found that the nuclear detonation had transported the Fremen back at least 20,000 years into unrecorded human history. They arrived at a different, yet no so different point in their distant past. The Fall of Baghdad, 2003 was being fought out by the noble House of Hussein al-Tikriti and the noble House of Bush.

~ variant from Steve Payne: extensive use of original content has been made to celebrate the author's genius.

Zanzibar Leopar..

In 1760, the brisk merchant's trade off the coast of Tanzania is undeterred by the depopulation of Europe. Far from it, the world's oldest marketplace at Zangi-bar (Zanzibar City) had never been busier. Equidistant from the Turtle Island, the Far East and the Gulf of Arabia, Zangi-bar was uniquely positioned as the trade ..

.. hub of the modern world. Hailed throughout Africa as an economic leopard, London's loss was most definitely her gain.

In 2012, at Camp David there had been a further episode of bashing between the third term US President George W Bush and his Secretary of State and second wife, Condoleezza Rice. The Battle of the Bushes had moved back out of the trenches into a rapid war of movement. W had offered Condi the Vice Presidency during his fourth ..

George Bush

.. term. She could be the back seat driver that Dick Cheney had been to date. “Honey, its a fine offer” he said just before she bashed him over the head with an executive toy from the Resolute Desk.

In 1959, the USS Barbero and United States Postal Service attempt the delivery of mail via Missile Mail. The Missile would land by deploying an internal parachute upon arrival. It has been attempted by various organisations in many different countries, with varying levels of success. The collection of philatelic material ..

.. used for (and depicting) rocket mail is a specialist branch of aerophilately known as astrophilately. Until the late 1950s, the idea was treated with derision due to the cost of the schemes and numerous failures. However the 1957 Dropshot War with Russia and China had rendered radioactive many parts of the continental United States, seriously inhibiting conventional forms of transportation. Perversely, astrophilately was an idea whose time had come around, mostly as a result of the nuclear missile.

In 1994, at West Ruislip depot British Transport Police inspect London Underground train number AEJX57B. At issue is the simply inexplicable emptiness of Carriage 16A at rush hour. Well, not quite empty. Just a single catatonic passenger. He become prime suspect #1 about three nanoseconds after the British Transport ..

Passenger #1

.. Police found him. The appearance of a radical Muslim cleric is against him and already whispering has started about how long he will go down for. Twenty-fours was the right answer, but it was a bet nobody would have dreamed of taking at that point. After all, he was being taken to Paddington Green, the most important high security police station in the United Kingdom.

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